Just days after The National Park Service (NPS) was forced to shut down its Twitter activity over two retweets the Department of the Interior
deemed inconsistent with the agency’s mission, the Twitter account for Badlands National Park in South Dakota seems to have gone rogue, tweeting
numerous scientific facts about climate change that have since been deleted.

The first tweet about climate science came at 11:40 a.m. local time Tuesday. It said: “The pre-industrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere was 280 parts per million (ppm). As of December 2016, 404.93 ppm.”

With the Trump administration clamping down on official social media accounts (no hypocrisy there) it would appear that someone out at Badlands
National Park decided to go rogue. Starting this afternoon their official Twitter account started tweeting climate change facts. Unfortunately these
tweets have since been deleted.

Personally I find this hilarious. Someone decided the current administration's orders were ridiculous and they decided to take matters into their own
hands. Unfortunately the park as a whole will probably suffer for this if not the Parks Service as a whole.

Im still critical of where climate change comes from, but this tweet stands out to me:

Youre telling me , that with all the volcanic activity , change in atmosphere etc......that NOW its the highest its ever been?

Me thinks a hardcore Man made global warming activist that works for the parks service went rogue......

These are from the ice cores from Vostok, As you can see there are cycles....and hell even 300,000 , and again 100,000 years ago from right to left,
you can see that Green house gases were higher than they are now......

“Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years”

To the extent these are presented as "facts" I would posit just from a layman's perspective,

(a) there is no way to know what the amount of carbon dioxide was "in the atmosphere" 650,000 years ago, inasmuch as there were no humans around to
measure it, and of course no instruments; and

(b) how did they determine the amount of CO2 "today", inasmuch as the tweet was about 11 a.m.; was this a local measurement, a global average, what
was the actual number, it could be one PPM more than 650,000 years ago, or a million ppm, and

(c) so what? Measurements differ on this particular item. So what?

Seems to me it's not even the job of Badlands NP to measure and collect this data.

This is part of the problem: every has an "opinion" on things they probably know nothing about and that are objectively measurable.

originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
Im still critical of where climate change comes from, but this tweet stands out to me:

Youre telling me , that with all the volcanic activity , change in atmosphere etc......that NOW its the highest its ever been?

Me thinks a hardcore Man made global warming activist that works for the parks service went rogue......

These are from the ice cores from Vostok, As you can see there are cycles....and hell even 300,000 , and again 100,000 years ago from right to left,
you can see that Green house gases were higher than they are now......

This is scientific data......hard data.....

Just because someone tweets it doesnt make it true

You know the reason why the numbers on the side max out at 280ppm for year 0 when measured CO2 is over 400 ppm today?

Year 0 on that chart is not today, but more than a hundred years ago. So yes, CO2 levels are far higher today than anytime on that chart.

Since everyone acts like Trump and Bannon are gangsters or something maybe a statement from NPS in a few days.

X was a good employee with a favorable review record. We just don't understand it. Employees are cautioned not agitate the Bison. What were they
thinking.

But really, should be tracked down and fired. Employee's are not there to make policy, they are there to carry it out. Any business would fire you. I
imagine there are a lot of budding Captain Planets that need to be rooted out in various agencies.

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